Fun and Artistic Projects with Your Photos - Beginning Photo Retouching and Restoration Using GIMP - page 243

Figure 10-5. A blurry photograph that has potential to become digital art

It won't be possible to get a good photograph from this image. Even the Unsharp Mask filter can't
make much of an improvement; there's just no sharp detail to rescue. Although it's not a usable image as a
photograph, it does have potential as digital art. If you'd like to give this technique a try, this image
( Ch10_blurry girl ) is located in the Practice Images folder. Then try it on some of your own images. Of
course, this technique doesn't have to be limited to out-of-focus images. Use it on any of your favorite
pictures that would look great as digital art.
You must have the G'MIC plug-in installed for this exercise.

1. Open the image (Ch10_blurry girl) and apply the Rodilius filter (Image Menu ➤

Filters ➤ G'MIC).

2. With the G'MIC dialog box open, click the small triangle (or + sign on Windows)

next to the Artistic option (Figure 10-6 ).